[TriLUG] MS Media Extensions in Mozilla

[David Rasch]

On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 02:10:31PM -0500, "Scott G. Hall" <ScottGHall at BellSouth.Net> wrote:
> Anyone know of a proper plugin or player for MS media format downloads
> while browsing a website using Mozilla?  RealOne (Helix) and XMMS aren't
> catching the download, and I have a family member who is trying to browse
> VH1 and other entertainment sites that are providing content only in MS
> format.

I would make sure you have in your sources.list:

deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ unstable main

and run "apt-get install mozilla-mplayer"


I've had good luck with mplayer and the plug playing most media for me
in Mozilla, but not everything.

Best of luck,
David